Here’s a “teaser” in the truest sense of the word.
Cheska Garcia and Doug Kramer from Jason Magbanua on Vimeo.
Inspired by Blueberry Nights and The Cocteau Twins.
Photography: MangoRed
Makeup and Styling: Madge Lejano
Hair: Joel of the Makeup Studio
Project Coordinator: Chinkie Uy-Agregado
Location: 32 Mckinley
It’s a common thing to say to oneself - “Nah, it will not happen to me.” But eventually, it will, whatever it is.
Last Friday, September 26th, we were shooting a wedding in Mandarin Hotel. It was around reception time and we were parked from between 9pm to 12mn at the lot directly in front of the hotel. It was an evening wedding in Santuario San Antonio hence the late time.
My SUV got broken into. The rear window, where the spare tire is, was completely ripped off. Equipment got stolen and the sense of violation sucks.
It only goes to show that bad luck and man’s ill intent can and will strike anytime, anywhere. Even if it’s in the grounds of a five star hotel.
What can one do? Nothing apparently, because - “The vehicle owners expressly agree that the hotel shall not be liable for any damage to or loss of the vehicle and/or its contents. “ Sucks to be me right now.
But now you know, don’t leave anything valuable behind WHEREVER you are parking. And Mandarin, I’m “kinda” glad it’s the first incident of its kind (according to your security), but I sure do hope it won’t happen again.
Don’t worry no technical mumbo-jumbo here (well at least it’s kept to a minimum).
HD - short for High Definition. Simply put, it’s higher quality video made available for your wedding day. The recorded image is much much bigger, clearer, more vibrant and life-like.
So, why go HD?
1. You want to maximize that 42 inch LCD or Plasma TV you’re buying for your new home.
2. You’re getting your husband that PlayStation3 or Bluray player for Christmas. (In exchange of course with that Tiffany charm bracelet)
3. You want the best possible recording technology available today to preserve your wedding day memories. Nuff said.
Why HD? It’s 2008, I guess the better question is - When HD?
With screen size alone the difference is pretty obvious (HD is 1440×1080 pixels, Standard Definition DVD is 720×480, YouTube is a mere 320×240). To give you an idea, here’s a relative comparison chart:
The proof is in the pudding you see. Better take a look at this web encode of an HD clip we made.
Please email me for the password. Enjoy!
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EDIT: Here’s more about Tisha nad Teody’s wedding from MangoRed’s site.
I know things will always be better. - These words spoken by the bride never rang so true.
Tisha and Teody were supposed to wed this December in the Grand Convention Center in Cebu, circumstances led them to reschedule for January 2009.
Last week Wednesday I got a call from Tisha.
“Brace yourself Jason. Are you ready for this?” (her usual bubbly self)
“I’m holding on to my seat, spell it out.” (anxious and giddy)
“Are you free this Monday, September 8 for my wedding?”
Momentary pause. Just a moment though. “Send me the tickets! We’re flying to Cebu”.
And so we pushed the shooting sked to five days. Nothing that Red Bull can’t handle really.
You see, I cannot miss this wedding for the world. Not after the almost year long planning conversations, not after the back-stories of the wedding, not after the tribulations the couple had to go through to make it happen. This time, September 8, nothing will stop this, for better or worse - It will happen!
It’s scary sometimes when you invest a part of yourself in the stories of couples. You dig so deep from within to put soul in the project. It’s taxing, exhausting even, but the rewards are so worth it.
Tisha and Teody from Jason Magbanua on Vimeo.
The 50 person wedding was held in the gorgeous gorgeous Abaca Resort in Mactan, Cebu. Planning a wedding in eight days or so is no mean feat. But thanks to the help of the Association of Sugbu’s Wedding Planners and Coordinators, Inc. (ASWPC), of which Tisha is the secretary, everything was executed hitch-free.
Once again we, along with Mangored, were treated extra special by the beautiful planners (STANZ!, Boni, Ritchie, Connie, Ralyn, Ritchie, Claire and Bong- don’t kill me if I forgot somebody, the Mojito got to me). Faces turned red and mangoes turned green as we partied the night away. Thanks guys! Til’ the next round.
For the country’s’ fashion elite last night, all roads led to the Shangri-la Makati for Rajo Laurel’s 15th anniversary gala dinner and fashion show. Proceeds of the event will benefit the Philippine National Red Cross.
We had the greatest pleasure and privilege to be asked to produce the video short heralding the start of the catwalk runs. Rizal ballroom was a sight to behold. The grandiose stage dominated the vast interior, all in black, with touches of red flowers as centerpieces.
Flanking the stage on both sides were giant LED screens. I hung around for video testing and calibrating. The picture quality was breathtaking.
Here’s the piece that we made. Everything was shot on yummy, yummy Super 8.
Rajo Red! from Jason Magbanua on Vimeo.
OK so I walk into the bride’s suite and everybody was busy preparing for the big day and yet warm as can be. The very first thing I noticed was the flowers. Never, as in never, have I seen such workmanship, such beauty in bouquets and corsages. I proceeded to chat with the kind Florist …
“You’re also from Bacolod?” - “My roots are.”
“These flowers are just utterly beautiful” - “Why thank you“. (said in the most unassuming and polite manner).
After some time, flipping through the pages of Philippine Tattler, a familiar face came up in a full page photo.
A Homer Simpson moment enveloped me - Doh! The unassuming florist turned out to be Margarita Fores - premiere Filipina restaurateur (Cibo, Pepato, Cafe Bola). Turns out she has so much art in her she’s now doing flowers, - Fiori Di M.
We had so much fun in this wedding as face after familiar face turned up (past couples, friends of couples, future couples). And of course, nothing beats working with friends as Chinkie Uy coordianted the wedding and Dino Lara shot the stills (you’ll see cameos of him and me in the video).
Here’s their Same Day Edit. Enjoy!
Jaraiza and Ked from Jason Magbanua on Vimeo.
Been terribly terribly busy. Today we shoot our fourth wedding in five days. Tomorrow we go off to Cebu for our fifth. Who gets married on a Monday anyway? You’ll soon find out. ;-).
And yet amidst the crazy schedule, we still found time to setup a booth in the PICC forum for the Wedding Expo. If you have time to drop by, you’ll be seeing for the first time an honest to goodness high definition video, playing back from a Bluray disc off a Playstation 3. It’s a highlights video of Claudine and Raymart’s wedding.
So yes the rest of our waking hours was spent creating that BD disc in between shoots. Ok, I admit, I was a skeptic at first, how else can you improve on existing DVD quality? But when we popped in the disc in the PS3, the difference was clear as night and day, good and evil, red and blue - you get the picture.
Twice the resolution, triple the emotion.
I’ll post more about this as the weeks progress. Ciao!
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